Dan Nystedt - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Dan Nystedt

Article | 22/08/2005 Telstra to launch 3G service on September 5

Telstra plans to launch a host of new high-speed services for mobile phone users, including new video features, as part of its official 3G opening on ...

Article | 22/08/2005 Apple replaces head of China office

Apple Computer replaced the managing director of its China unit and made other changes aimed at increasing growth in the country, a spokesman said Fri...

Article | 16/08/2005 Component costs rising, but PC prices won't

Costs are on the rise for several types of PC components, including memory chips and LCD screens. But while that's a concern for procurement managers ...

Article | 12/08/2005 Hong Kong nabs DVD pirating ring

Hong Kong customs officers broke up a movie and video game pirating ring last week, seizing over 100,000 discs. It was a nice haul, but it was far fro...

Article | 12/08/2005 Samsung pushing DDR2 into PC mainstream

Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chip maker, said Thursday that the global shift to a speedier computer memory chip, DDR2 (double data ...

Article | 11/08/2005 Lenovo Q1 results shine, after adding IBM deal

Lenovo Group posted better than expected earnings for its first quarter ending June 30, adding figures from the PC business it acquired from IBM in Ma...

Article | 1/08/2005 'Grand Theft Auto' crashes in Australia

Under fire in the US from politicians, lawyers and lobbying groups for sexually explicit content, the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, or GTA...

Article | 28/07/2005 US Congress takes on Grand Theft Auto

US regulators opened a probe into the publisher of video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" on Tuesday, prompted by a resolution from the U.S. House...

Article | 25/07/2005 Analysis: Chinese currency move won't affect PC costs

China's currency revaluation raised the cost of paying worker salaries at the thousands of electronics factories across the nation, but that won't imp...

Article | 21/07/2005 Giga-byte enters branded mobile phone business

A subsidiary of Giga-byte Technology, one of Taiwan's top computer component makers, launched its first Gigabyte-brand mobile phone Wednesday.

Article | 11/07/2005 TSMC and Kodak promise new breed of digital camera chip

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip maker, agreed to license image technology from Eastman Kodak Co to use...

Article | 8/07/2005 Lenovo to be a top 10 chip buyer in 2005

Chinese personal computer maker Lenovo Group will leap to ninth place in the global chip purchasing ranks this year, thanks to its acquisition of IBM ...

Article | 5/07/2005 Global chip sales rise in May, group says

Global semiconductor sales rose in May due mainly to a blistering mobile phone market, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

Article | 4/07/2005 Taiwan court rules in favor of P-to-P company

In the first ruling of its kind in Taiwan, a Taiwanese district court on Thursday found peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file-sharing software maker Ezpeer.com n...

Article | 30/06/2005 Intel disagrees with AMD suit, says it won't change

Intel, the world's largest chip maker, said it disagrees with antitrust allegations made by rival Advanced Micro Devices and said it will continue to ...